Guided walks are being offered at a former World War Two airfield to mark the anniversary of the D-Day landings. RAF North Witham in Lincolnshire was home to US paratroopers who were some of the first ...

The D-Day landings, which took place a year before liberation, marked a pivotal moment during World War Two. It was the ...

A D-Day hero who survived the Normandy landings and being shot three times has died aged 101. Cecil Newton, a trooper with the 4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards, died peacefully in his sleep on ...

100-year-old Bob Gibson paid tribute to comrades who fell on D-Day, when he landed on the other, less-bloody American landing beach, code-named Utah. “You don’t want other people to go through ...

Louis Marius Prevost, the father of Pope Leo XIV, served on a D-Day landing ship during World War II and was a junior ...

Napoleon Ave., Metairie. The operation was designed to divert Axis attention away from Normandy, the site of the D-Day landing, and after the invasion, to delay reinforcement by convincing the ...

A D-Day veteran has been honoured with a memorial sign at his favourite park. Albert Price took part in the 1944 Normandy ...

Two days of events to mark the 80th anniversary of the D-Day Landings in Normandy began on Wednesday in Portsmouth - from where much of the 1944 invasion force sailed. More than 500 veterans ...

Langrehr was able to return to Normandy last summer on the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings. The Arsenal said he revisited that same greenhouse.

(photo: Steck, U.S. Army Signal Corps, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons) Louis Marius Prevost, the father of Pope Leo XIV, served on a D-Day landing ship during World War II and later became a ...